creditably

The last Lord Lomond bore the name creditably enough.

The Marriage of Elinor 1862

Each one of us has one great task sufficient to absorb all our energies if we performed it creditably, which is to bring the average of our conduct up so that our best moments may not be used against us as an evidence of hypocrisy.

Aleta Dey 1919

They think that party acts most creditably, which is the first to propose terms of peace; that it is disgraceful to be anticipated in so doing; and that it is scandalous and detestable to refuse peace to those who ask for it, even though the latter should have been the aggressors: all the neighboring people unite in destroying such refusers of peace as impious and abominable.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century James Alexander Robertson 1906

"sent him elsewhere to talk other folks to death" -- to the State House, where he served several terms creditably, but was mainly the fund of jollity to the lobby and the chartered jester of the lawmakers.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

Waters, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, is accused of violating a House rule that requires members to behave in a way that reflects "creditably" on the chamber.

Home/News 2010

Aitken Spence Managing Director J M S Brito said the group ended the year on a "positive note" with its major sectors performing "creditably" amidst the global turmoil.

LBO-Lanka Business Online 2009

The OCE has countered that House rules bar members of Congress from any activity that does not reflect "creditably" on the House, and have previously warned members to avoid an "appearance of a conflict of interest," according to the seven-page response sent Tuesday.

Home/News 2009

IPS says Sri Lanka has been growing "creditably" during 2005-2007 but "growth has also been accompanied by a weakening of macroeconomic stability."

LBO-Lanka Business Online 2008

He must be a man, I say, able to use a small-sword creditably, who knows one end of a horse from another, who can win well but lose better, who can follow the hounds over the roughest country and not fall sick for a trifle of mud, nor fret a week over a splashed coat -- in a word, he must be a man, sir. "

The Honourable Mr. Tawnish Jeffery Farnol 1915

Meanwhile his fellow citizens stupidly tired of this Merry Andrew ” they “sent him elsewhere to talk other folks to death” ” to the State House, where he served several terms creditably, but was mainly the fund of jollity to the lobby and the chartered jester of the lawmakers.

The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907